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Sheffield DocFest · 2019

Sheffield DocFest 2019

Focus/Shapes That Move

Programme

18 films

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Access: Working Women

An episode of a TV show, examining pay and conditions for women.

(Country: UK; Year: 1975; Director: Tyne Tees Television & Working Women's Charter Group)

Audre Lorde In Conversation

A candid conversation between the Late Start collective and Audre Lorde.

(Country: UK; Year: 1985; Director: Viv Bietz, Shaheen Haq, Pratibha Parmar, Ingrid Pollard)

Being White

Various white people discuss issues related to skin colour and the injustice of white privileges, as well as the prejudice towards ethnic minorities.

(Country: UK; Year: 1987; Director: Albany Video)

The Body Of A Poet: A Tribute To Audre Lorde

Meditation on the life and work of the lesbian, feminist warrior poet who died of breast cancer.

(Country: US; Year: 1995; Director: Sonali Fernando)

Bred And Born

Four generations of women in an East London family talk about their experiences and a women's group discuss being mothers and daughters.

(Country: UK; Year: 1983; Director: Joanna Davis, Mary Pat Leece; Stars: Ber Alcock, Carol Biggs, Jocelyn Cornwell, Marty Cruikshank, Anna Edgar, Mandy Fayne, Maggie Ford, Gillian Harsup, Sandra Jacobs, Amelia Jeyes, Loraine Leason, Heather Lockwood, Carys Pearce, Karen Sine, Chris Smith)

Crops And Robbers

Animated film points out the connections between surplus and famine.

(Country: UK; Year: 1986; Director: Leeds Animation Workshop)

Emergence

A video featuring Black and Third World women artists and poets.

(Country: UK; Year: 1986; Director: Pratibha Parmar)

From A To D

An experimental domestic narrative.

(Country: UK; Year: 1994; Director: Janey Walklin)

How Does An Invisible Boy Disappear

Emerging from a nine-month collaboration with Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers, a new women's film collective made up of young women from a Somali & Pakistani background, this film documents the group as they work together to create a thriller.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers, Rehana Zaman)

Khush

A film exploring the lives of Asian lesbian and gay men in Britain and India.

(Country: UK; Year: 1991; Director: Pratibha Parmar)

Out To The Family

Six families, from a wide range of backgrounds, come to terms with the developing sexual or gender identity of a son or daughter.

(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Leeds Animation Workshop)

Risky Business

Animation about health and safety at work.

(Country: UK; Year: 1980; Director: Leeds Animation Workshop)

A Short Film About Us

An exploration of how cultural identity effects the way you feel about being a lesbian.

(Country: UK; Year: 1996; Director: Rita Smith)

A Tribute to Black Women (They Don't Get a Chance)

Highlighting the lack of education about successful black women.

(Country: UK; Year: 1986; Director: Ann Carney, Barbara Phillips)

Video 28

A celebration and a record of some of the many fight back events against Section 28 of the Local Government Act.

(Year: 1988; Director: Vera Productions)

Visible

The challenges of QPOC history.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Campbell X)

Women Of Steel

Women recall their work in munitions factories in the Second World War.

(Country: UK; Year: 1984; Director: Jenny Woodley)

You'll Never Work Alone

Exploring the ins and outs of a co-operative.

(Year: 1984; Director: WiTCH)